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As we see time and again, when local communities are included, they can become resolute wildlife
defenders.
As abhorrent as these methods may be, they seldom lack defenders, who argue that they are needed to obtain information that can save lives.
And then, as one would expect, there is the motivated fallacy peddled by the
defenders
of the status quo.
To repudiate society’s property rights over the returns to capital that we, as users, have created, Big Tech’s
defenders
invoke users’ large consumer surplus (the sum we would be prepared to pay for access to free services such as Gmail and Google Maps).
In this environment, when human-rights
defenders
speak out, they often come under threat.
As Global Witness makes clear, the presence of development aid in many of these projects allows for interested parties, such as governments and corporations, to demonize environmental
defenders
as “anti-development” and therefore unpatriotic.
More than 100 civil-society organizations from around the world have launched a campaign to urge development finance institutions and their shareholder governments to respect human rights in their projects, promote an environment for safe participation in development processes, and ensure that their investments do not put human-rights
defenders
at risk.
This means that aid must be conditional on binding commitments from the recipients to respect rights, protect human-rights defenders, and ensure that new projects are not causing or contributing to abuses against indigenous peoples, such as forced evictions or labor-rights violations.
In my upcoming report to the United Nations General Assembly I advocate for a “zero-tolerance approach” to killings and violent acts against environmental human-rights
defenders.
Development banks must therefore establish effective measures and protocols to empower
defenders
and respond to any threats or crackdowns against individuals or civil-society organizations defending human rights in connection with development activities.
The fact is that a number of serious objections exist to the concept of universal human rights, which its
defenders
need to acknowledge - honestly - if only to refute them.
Defenders
of America’s inequality argue that the poor and those in the middle shouldn’t complain.
The current system’s
defenders
argue that Russia cannot afford an all-volunteer army.
Because the Internet was designed for ease of use rather than security, attackers currently have the advantage over
defenders.
Defenders
of the program point out that it is consistent with current law and with America’s constitutional philosophy of checks and balances, because both the legislative and judicial branches approved it.
But
defenders
of that doctrine cautioned patience: one could make such judgments only with a longer-run perspective.
Dismissing complaints, Zuma insists, “There’s no cloud around me.”His defenders, meanwhile, point to two benefits that he has already delivered: an end to Mbeki’s ambivalent approach to fighting HIV/AIDS, the country’s major public health threat, and a refreshing willingness to move against Zimbabwe’s aged dictator, Robert Mugabe, whom Mbeki coddled out of a misguided sense of loyalty for his support during the struggle against apartheid.
Meanwhile, the
defenders
of Britain’s continued EU membership have made one mistake after another.
Defenders
of the French Republic, who took Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity seriously, thought of citizenship as a legal concept, not one based on blood and soil.
Yesterday China was an anti-capitalist lodestar for utopian revolutionaries; today it has become an ultra-liberal nemesis for a new generation of utopian reactionaries – the
defenders
of the status quo in Europe.
Defenders
of President Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the military emphasize the difficulty of the task they face in Iraq, human frailty and fallibility, and the fact that there are always a few "rotten apples."
Sadly, the international community did not respond to last autumn’s mass arrests of human rights
defenders.
Its ardent
defenders
are, of course, untroubled by the loss of jobs.
Both critics and
defenders
of global imbalances almost entirely overlooked these gross flows in both directions across the North Atlantic.
But we must first consider more broadly the challenges confronting economists and financial experts in today’s world – challenges that remain poorly understood, by contemporary economics’ critics and
defenders
alike.
The Syrians also like to present themselves as the last real Arab
defenders
of the Palestinian cause.
And costly, ineffective programs are notorious for surviving indefinitely because they develop powerful
defenders.
Defenders
of the megabanks – Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley – dismiss Warren as an avatar of left-wing populism.
To this, the movement’s
defenders
ask: “Why persist with NATO and expand it ever eastward, until its troops now sit almost on the banks of the Indus, and in the foothills of the Hindu Kush?”
Are women, for example, always the best
defenders
of women's interests?
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